“The state of the kingdom?”

“Yes.”

“Now that you mention it, you were from the Steelwalls, right, Mr. Zich?”

“Yes, there was a time like that,” Zich said, barely joking. He never thought of his time at the Steelwalls at all. He had broken connections with his past family before the regression and caused a huge commotion before leaving his family again after the regression. There was no need for him to get sentimental or furious about it now. The most he thought about them was that he could help them once in the future to remember the things his mother had done to them.

“Hm.”

Evelyn glanced at Zich. It seemed like she was wondering if she should tell him or not.

‘The situation must not be good,’ Zich thought.

“If you find it hard to talk about, you don’t have to. Since I no longer have any connections to the Steelwall house, I don’t really care what happens to that place.”

Hearing Zich’s response, she started carefully, “If that’s what you think, I suppose it’s fine. It’s not such a serious matter and I don’t know the specifics either. I just know that they are having some trouble regarding their successor.”

‘I guess Greig is not living up to his position,’ Zich thought when he heard this.

Was it because he...